New Open Access Publication on Mindfulness / Phenomenology

Abstract Open peer commentary on the article “Assessing Subjective Processes and Vulnerability in Mindfulness-based Interventions: A Mixed methods Exploratory Study” by Sebastián Medeiros, Carla Crempien, Alejandra Vásquez-Rosati, Javiera Duarte, Catherine Andreu, Álvaro I. Langer, Miguel Ibaceta, Jaime R. Silva & Diego Cosmelli Sánchez. Abstract: Mindfulness is phenomenology and good phenomenology is a kind of methodological mindfulness. Mindfulness … Read more

A Few Thoughts and Arguments on the Current Campaign Against Homeopathy

This is a text which I have written in response to a call by some VOLT-actitivists that the VOLT-Party (a new pan-European party) should support the ban on homoepathy, on the grounds of an alleged death of a child by homeopathy in Italy.

There is an anti-homeopathy campaign ongoing currently in which most arguments used are either wrong or distorted (see below). Supporting such a campaign would simply be plain stupid. The most sensible thing to do is what no one dares doing currently: to organise one or a series of meetings in which an open discourse is started about homeopathy, one that considers data and the pro and con arguments.

I hereby want to clear up some common misconceptions.

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Videos from the 2019 Convention of the Society for Scientific Exploration

Consilience: Five New 2019 SSE Conference Videos Released The first of the 2019 SSE convention videos are now online at YouTube! Watch these presentations from Larry Dossey, Carsten Ohrmann, Harald Walach, Paul Smith, and York Dobyns on the topic of “Consilience.” Watch the Playlist  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE481gXv0Nn8IkgHe9ZE3_bKysAy4oj18 Watch the presentation “Towards a Postmaterialist Science” by Harald Walach (in English language) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngFfYtf-Aok